SIEM Contracts in Central London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 113 128
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SIEM 18 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 0.78% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.85% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 30
10th Percentile £470 £429 £450
25th Percentile £488 £497 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -6.71% -14.13%
75th Percentile £617 £597 £677
90th Percentile £750 £760 £820
London median daily rate £588 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +2.17% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,873 2,114 3,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.93% 91.75% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,418 2,125
10th Percentile £321 £373 £350
25th Percentile £419 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £703
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 17
10th Percentile £19.05 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.16% -12.50% +6.67%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Central London

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Central London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Central London

SIEM
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London 0 18 £550 -2.61% 13
SIEM
London

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) SSL
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) FTP
3 2 (11.11%) HTTP
3 2 (11.11%) SMTP
4 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (5.56%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (11.11%) CSOC
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA
4 1 (5.56%) STIX
4 1 (5.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Incident Response
1 10 (55.56%) Security Operations
2 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) SOAR
4 7 (38.89%) Threat Detection
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (16.67%) Agile
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (16.67%) OWASP
8 3 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (16.67%) Use Case
9 2 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.56%) GCFA
2 1 (5.56%) GCIA
2 1 (5.56%) GCIH
2 1 (5.56%) GIAC
2 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Splunk
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) AlgoSec
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Exabeam
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) MobileIron
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Tufin